This 2023, we have started with the socialization of the projects that we will be developing with our beneficiaries and their families throughout the year in Soledad. During the participatory activity, attendees were able to provide valuable contributions and suggestions, as well as commit to staying active in the process. It was an enriching moment for everyone involved.

Christmas represents solidarity and hope, sharing them with other communities is an experience that allows us to cultivate these values; approximately 150 children from the Cabica community joined us in this playful and educational activity and received their Christmas gift.

This year, the Educational Articulation program worked hard with vocational orientation activities and permanent educational follow-up, which allowed 12 high school and 5 technical education beneficiaries to graduate this year.

This program is one of the most important, as it is part of our institutional mission, which seeks to generate tools for our beneficiaries so that they can have a successful life project and improve their quality of life.

During this year, the Food Safety project developed at the Soledad location trained 18 parents in healthy eating habits, and also provided nutritional guides so that they can apply what they learned at home and thus strengthen the nutritional recovery process of their children

This week in Soledad, we had the visit of Eider Ruiz, a young indigenous man from the Amazon, who was sharing with our beneficiaries and exchanging experiences related to environmental care, natural medicine, gastronomy, relaxation and meditation through painting, music and reading images.

From the Educating at Home project, implemented in Soledad, we taught parents how to organize study time at home, through different strategies, such as the pomodoro technique and the Kamban method, the activity was developed in a group way exemplifying with everyday life situations that allowed enriching the process.

This time we did it through a game where the children had to choose the healthiest foods and put together a menu, using high relief sheets with food and life-size portions.
By developing these activities, we want the children at the Healthy Nutrition Center to be able to identify the foods that should be consumed and how to distribute them in adequate quantities in order to stay healthy”.

In the nutritional workshops for parents, developed in Soledad, we continued working on the different food groups, this time we worked on the importance of cereal consumption, highlighting oats as one of the most important, as it is a food rich in iron, magnesium and calcium, it also provides energy, strengthens the immune system; with oats we can make multiple preparations, such as cookies, breads and smoothies. During the workshop the parents prepared delicious and nutritious pancakes.

This Tuesday in Soledad, the nutritional assessments of the beneficiaries of the food security project began, with the objective of determining the nutritional status of children and identify possible risk factors associated with physical health, for this process we have the presence of two nutritionists and a doctor thanks to a partnership with the Food Bank.

This week in Soledad we celebrated the Mental Health Week, developing different activities that favor the socioemotional well-being of our children through different artistic activities, healthy habits and mental exercise, in addition to a campaign called “Don’t hit, better hug” to promote good treatment and reduce situations of violence.